What does the word sugar mean?
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See Saccharum.
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is prepared from the expressed juice of the sugar-cane, boiled with the addition of quicklime or common vegetable alkali. It is used, in pharmacy, for the preparation of syrups, conserves, lozenges, etc. It is nutritious, and is employed as an aliment, and as a eutrophic demulcent and antiseptic. Dissolved in small quantities in water, as in tea, it is apt to disagree with dyspeptics; an evil which does not always occur when the same substance is taken more largely.
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[ Latin] Any sweetish soluble substance. Muscles s., Heart-s., inosite. S. of lead( Saccharum Saturni), lead acetate.
Usage examples for sugar
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Some men got together before night, with a little powder that hadn't turned into purple sugar yet, and they said they would fire off one cannon, anyway. – Christmas Every Day and Other Stories by W. D. Howells
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Cut sugar, did you say, Madam?" – Torchy, Private Sec. by Sewell Ford
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By the way, the sugar is not in my pocket; after all, it is in this little bag on my belt; I don't suppose you could reach it." – The Girl at Cobhurst by Frank Richard Stockton
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